Two owners of a Chinese company built their business by stealing Tesla Inc’s battery assembly line technology, US prosecutors alleged in a complaint unsealed Tuesday in Brooklyn.
Court documents referred to the victimized company as a leading electric vehicles manufacturer, providing further details that matched Tesla. A source familiar with the matter confirmed Tesla is in fact the company from whom the defendants are accused of stealing trade secrets.
They allegedly started selling Tesla’s proprietary battery production technology under their own business startup in China. One of the defendants—a Canadian named Klaus Pflugbeil—was arrested in Nassau County, New York Tuesday ...
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